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One
No, Many Yeses
A
Journey to the Heart of the Global Resistance Movement
By Paul Kingsnorth
A
manifesto, an investigation, a travel book:
One No, Many
Yeses is an introduction to the
new politics of resistance which shows there is much more to
anti-globalisation than trashing Starbucks.
So,
what is it? Who is
involved, what do they want, and how do they aim to get it?
Kingsnorth
has travelled across five continents to visit some of the
epicentres of the movement in his attempt to find out.
Along the way, he found a new political movement and a
new political idea. Not
socialism, not capitalism, not any ‘ism’ at all, it is
united in what it opposes, and deliberately diverse in what it
wants instead – a politics of ‘one no, many yeses.’
One
No, Many Yeses moves
the ‘anti-globalisation’ debate on to the next phase. Rather
than just presenting us with the problems posed by an
out-of-control global economy, Kingsnorth examines those already
resisting it and the diverse range of alternatives being
implemented. Ultimately,
he charts the development of a new movement that may yet change
the world.—Publisher
If
you liked No Logo…You’ll love One
No, Many Yeses.
—The
Times
/ Gripping,
engaging and inspiring –
it will become a classic.—George
Monbiot
It’s
as if Alex Garland has taken Naomi Klein on holiday … part
visionary, part historian, [Kingsnorth’s] voice is accessible,
impassioned and persuasive.—Esquire
This
gripping, highly personable travelogue is essential reading for
anyone who wants to get up to speed with the growing
social-justice movement.—New
Internationalist
An
enlightening guide to the ragbag of anti-globalisation
movements.—New
Statesman
‘Reading One No, Many Yeses reminded me of John Reed's classic
reportage from the Russian and Mexican revolutions a century
ago. Not least because Kingsnorth's book begins with the
Zapatistas coming out of the Mexican jungles to declare bankrupt
the inheritors of the old Mexican revolution. Can the new
movement do better? We shall see, but its literature is starting
to shape up quite well.’—New
Scientist
Brilliant.—The
Ecologist /
An
engagingly-written and worthy successor to No Logo.—I-D
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Skillfully
crafted … investigative journalism of the highest order.—Fourth
World Review
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Paul Kingsnorth, a
writer and campaigner, was born in 1972, in Worcester. Between
1991 and 1994, he studied history at Oxford University. At
Oxford, he became politicised and developed deep
ecological concerns. In the first of the many road protests to
define the British landscape (from West London to Bath), Kingsnorth
was involved in the campaign to protect Twyford Down from
the extension of the M3 motorway. He also, while at the
university, represented the Green Party on the student union
executive, and edited the student newspaper and a national
magazine, Green Student. On leaving university, Kingsnorth spent two
months working on an orangutan rehabilitation project in Borneo,
before starting work as a researcher and trainee writer at The
Independent newspaper, where he remained just under a year
before he left to work as a writer and campaigner for the
London-based NGO EarthAction. |
Two years later he became a
freelance journalist, and two years after that, in 1999, deputy
editor of The Ecologist, the world’s longest-running
green magazine. In 2001 he left the staff of the magazine (for
which he still writes a monthly column) to research and write One
No, Many Yeses. In 2001, Kingsnorth
was nominated in the New Statesman as one of
Britain’s "Top Troublemakers." He lives in
Oxford, on the river Thames.
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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